One more justification of my admiration of Sarah. Palin Endorses Hoffman.

Sarah Palin proves, once again, what a real Republican is, unlike all the RINOs, unlike Newt Gingrich, unlike all the other fake Republicans out there.

She goes rogue on her Facebook page.

The people of the 23rd Congressional District of New York are ready to shake things up, and Doug Hoffman is coming on strong as Election Day approaches! He needs our help now.

The votes of every member of Congress affect every American, so it’s important for all of us to pay attention to this important Congressional campaign in upstate New York. I am very pleased to announce my support for Doug Hoffman in his fight to be the next Representative from New York’s 23rd Congressional district. It’s my honor to endorse Doug and to do what I can to help him win, including having my political action committee, SarahPAC, donate to his campaign the maximum contribution allowed by law.

Our nation is at a crossroads, and this is once again a "time for choosing."

The federal government borrows, spends, and prints too much money, while our national debt hits a record high. Government is growing while the private sector is shrinking, and unemployment is on the rise. Doug Hoffman is committed to ending the reckless spending in Washington, D.C. and the massive increase in the size and scope of the federal government. He is also fully committed to supporting our men and women in uniform as they seek to honorably complete their missions overseas.

And best of all, Doug Hoffman has not been anointed by any political machine.

Doug Hoffman stands for the principles that all Republicans should share: smaller government, lower taxes, strong national defense, and a commitment to individual liberty.

Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of "blurring the lines" between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections. Unfortunately, the Republican Party today has decided to choose a candidate who more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race. This is why Doug Hoffman is running on the Conservative Party’s ticket.

Republicans and conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual.

You can help Doug by visiting his official website below and joining me in supporting his campaign:
http://www.doughoffmanforcongress.com/donate3.html.

- Sarah Palin

Breaks with the party? Check.

Invokes Reagan? Check.

Fires up the base? Check and mate.

Palin Endorses Hoffman UPDATED and Bumped

Treasury IG finds 100,000 illegal immigrants sought the $8k tax credit for new home buyers… or as I call it, an arrest list

I think this is great news.  The Treasury IG found 100,000 fraudulent claims.  Guess what’s on each one of them?  An address!  It seems to me that we have a really nice list of people to go arrest and we know where they are.  How perfect is that?  Assuming the average household has 3 people, we are ready to round up over a quarter of a million illegal immigrants. 

Whenever I have noted illegal alien mortgage fraud over the years, I’ve been smacked with the RAAAAACIST card.

Wonder if the Inspector General for Tax Administration is going to get mau-mau-ed by the open borders lobby, too.

Shhhhhh:

The rush to implement a tax credit for first-time home buyers opened the program up to potential fraud by people who hadn’t bought a home or already owned one, Congress was told Thursday.

J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, questioned the eligibility of some 100,000 claims out of the 1.5 million who have sought to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit incorporated in the economic stimulus package enacted last February.

He said claimants include those who could possibly be illegal immigrants and that 580 people seeking $4 million from the first-time home buyer credit were under the age of 18. The youngest taxpayers receiving the credit were 4 years old, his office said.

Michelle Malkin » Mortgage tax credit fraud by illegal aliens? Shhhhh…

Networks, Newspapers Ignore Partisan, Racially-motivated Obama DOJ Action Against Kinston, NC | NewsBusters.org

Well, this is nice.  The DOJ claim that no black Republican could ever be elected.  Even though almost all the predominately black areas voted in favor of this, the DOJ still reversed them.

So is the DOJ saying that a black man could not get elected unless he was a Dem or that blacks only vote Dem or that a black person could never win on their name and reputation without being identified as a Dem?

All the options are highly racist.  

The Obama ascendency, the president’s acolytes have been keen on telling us, is the dawn of a new post-partisan era. But a development that undercuts that fiction — the Obama Justice Department’s recent move to scuttle non-partisan local elections in Kinston, North Carolina, on the basis of racial and partisan considerations — has escaped the interest of the mainstream media.

Both the Washington Times (in a Tuesday front-pager) and NewsBusters sister site CNSNews.com have reported the story, but a Nexis search today yielded no stories from print outlets such as the Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, or Los Angeles Times. Broadcast news programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC have also failed to touch the story. Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends" briefly discussed the story shortly before 7:00 a.m. EDT on the October 21 edition with Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund.

A search for news stories about the controversy on Google News this morning yielded only 14 hits, most of them from conservative organizations or blogs.

Below is an excerpt from CNSNews.com reporter Adam Brickley’s October 21 story:

The U.S. Department of Justice is refusing to allow the town of Kinston, N.C., to hold nonpartisan local elections on the grounds that African Americans cannot win election without being listed as Democrats on the ballot.

In a letter sent Saturday by to Kinston City Attorney James P. Cauley III, the Justice Department stated: “Removing the partisan cue in municipal elections will, in all likelihood, eliminate the single factor that allows black candidates to be elected to office.”

The department Tuesday also refused to answer questions from CNSNews.com about the letter.

Kinston voters last year approved changing city council elections to a nonpartisan basis, similar to thousands of other towns in the U.S. – without mention of party affiliation.

Networks, Newspapers Ignore Partisan, Racially-motivated Obama DOJ Action Against Kinston, NC | NewsBusters.org

Obama is tanking in the polls. I guess someone out there is catching on to his crap.

These numbers are looking bad for Obama.  The more people know, they more they hate Obama.  No wonder why he wants to control the press.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. That’s the lowest level of Strong Approval yet measured for this President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13 (see trends).

For the first time during Obama’s time in office, the Approval Index has been in negative double digits for seven straight days. Fifty percent (50%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 66% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove of his performance. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 18% Strongly Approve and 42% Strongly Disapprove.

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll – Rasmussen Reports™

Pay Czar Feinberg, Not Obama, Behind Decision to Slash Executive Pay? By what Constitutional authority?

I bolded a section of the quote below.  By what authority does an unelected, unvetted, and non-Constitutionally authorized “czar” get to decide what private companies do?

I don’t care if they were stupid enough to take the “bailout” money, but where does this guy get the authority to decide this?  Come to think of it, where in the Constitution does it say that the President could even set salaries at a private company?

This president is a Chavez wanna-be and needs to be stopped ASAP.

White House pay czar Kenneth Feinberg was the driving force behind the move to order steep pay cuts from bailed-out executives, and did not even seek the president’s approval before making his decision.

The Treasury Department is expected to formally announce in the next few days a plan to slash annual salaries by about 90 percent from last year for the 25 highest-paid executives at the seven companies that received the most from the Wall Street bailout. Total compensation for the top executives at the firms would decline, on average, by about 50 percent.

The sweeping decision, though, came from Feinberg and not from President Obama.

One official told Fox News that Feinberg from the start had the independent authority to work with companies and make such a call. Obama was never required to sign off before final decisions were made.

Pay Czar Feinberg, Not Obama, Behind Decision to Slash Executive Pay – Political News – FOXNews.com

Obama has secret 2+ hour meeting with left-wing “journalists” and refuses to release who was there. Transparency?

This is getting so bad.

What could possibly have been discussed in President Obama’s meeting with left-wing opinion journalists that required secrecy?

What is being kept from the American public about the two-and-a-half hour confab?

Goodbye, watchdogs. Hello, bootlickers.

How about a full list of those who attended the off-the-record meeting?

Where’s the openness and sunlight and disclosure?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Michelle Malkin » The bootlicker media

Well, its reached the point where the White House tells MSNBC what to say DURING a show.

This is truly horrible for the US.  The press is FIRMLY under the control of Obama’s administration.

“The White House did just e-mail saying that interaction with Jake Tapper was not heated.”

White House emails directions to MSNBC…
The Obama White House emailed MSNBC during a live broadcast to “correct” them on their coverage of the administration’s attacks on FOX News.

It was nice of MSNBC to admit that they were taking direction from the White House. It’s not like it was a secret.

Gateway Pundit

Michelle Malkin » Where’s the transparency on Gitmo?

More Obama transparency?

From GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s office, a demand for transparency from the Obama administration on its Gitmo relocation plans:

[Hoekstra,] the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, used a rare, open hearing of a House Intelligence Subcommittee to highlight the fact that nine months to the day after President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order to close Guantanamo Bay, the administration still has not presented a plan and is avoiding transparency with Congress.

“The National Security Act requires that Congress be kept fully and currently informed, but when it comes to Guantanamo Bay, the administration is doing anything but that,” Hoekstra said. “We have asked questions, sent letters and requested briefings, but this committee has received nothing in the way of meaningful answers. The administration’s lack of transparency with Congress and the American people on this critical national security issue has been absolutely shocking, so we had little choice but to use this hearing to speak out.”

Michelle Malkin » Where’s the transparency on Gitmo?

Treasonous, Un-American News: Jobless Claims Increase Again

How dare they release this information without Obama’s approval?

Are you stimulated yet?

The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for jobless benefits rose more than expected last week, after falling in five of the past six weeks, as employers remain reluctant to hire even with the economy showing signs of recovery.

Which signs? You mean the bear-market rally? The market rose under Bush for years and the media was unwilling to call that a sign of recovery, even though the economy actually was, formally, in recovery.

The Labor Department said Thursday that new jobless claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 531,000 last week, from an upwardly revised 520,000 the previous week. Wall Street economists had expected only a slight increase, according to Thomson Reuters.

Economists closely watch initial claims, which are considered a gauge of layoffs and an indication of companies’ willingness to hire new workers.

The four-week average of claims, which smooths out fluctuations, fell slightly to 532,250, the lowest since mid-January and about 125,000 below the peak for the recession, reached this spring. But claims remain well above the 325,000 that economists say is consistent with a healthy economy.

Treasonous, Un-American News: Jobless Claims Increase Again

Obama sounds more like Chavez every day.

"As usual, much disinformation has shaped the debate surrounding these developments," – Venezuelan Embassy

Sound familiar?

Pres. Obama has described Fox News as "operating basically as a talk-radio format" rather than as a "news outlet."
When NBC’s Savannah Guthrie raised [in a segment of her extended interview of the president aired on Today this morning] the issue of White House attacks on Fox News, PBO first tried to play the statesman, resorting to the old dodge about "the American people" being more interested in jobs and the situation in Afghanistan.
But when politely pressed, PBO didn’t hesitate to fustigate Fox.

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Another issue in the news is the news: we asked the president what he thinks about some of his advisers saying Fox News–known for conservative opinion–isn’t really a news organization.
GUTHRIE: So you think it’s appropriate for the White House to say what is and what is not a news organization?
BARACK OBAMA: I think the American people are a lot more interested in what we’re doing to create jobs or handling the situation in Afghanistan.
GUTHRIE: Fair enough, but your advisers raised this issue.
OBAMA: Well, no, I think that what our advisers have simply said is that we are going to take the media as it comes. And if media is operating basically as a talk-radio format, then that’s one thing, and if it’s operating as a news outlet, then that’s another.  But it’s not something I’m losing a lot of sleep over.

Obama: Fox Operates More Like ‘Talk Radio’ Than As ‘News Outlet’ | NewsBusters.org